One of the beers in the above snap strutted away with a gold medal at this year’s Great American Beer Festival — and it’s not the first time this local brewery has struck gold. And because I stupidly drank every single glass dry, my head was knocking the next morning…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a pulled pork sandwich from Reiver’s, whose kitchen is now dabbling in barbecue (and serving Big Hoss sauce to go with it), to a gigantic pizza from Anthony’s, to an excellent lamb dip from a Larimer Square restaurant…
A few weeks ago, during dinner at ChoLon, Lon Symensma’s downtown contemporary Asian restaurant, Symensma and his partner, Jim Deters, let me in on a little secret: Flow Restaurant Group, the company under which ChoLon is umbrellaed, they told me, would soon have a second restaurant under its belt, and…
The pasta was fine — a little one-dimensional, but fine — and the shrimp didn’t justify any complaints, but for the love of 2012, when can we dispense with showering parsley all over our food? Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
Update: We have a winner of our contest. Congrats to Alison Torvik, who was the only commenter to guess all five restaurants correctly: Vesta Dipping Grill, Sushi Den, Strings, Highland’s Garden Cafe and Duo. While last week was all about the Great American Beer Festival (and hangovers), this week is…
It’s been an…interesting year for Ambria, the American-Mediterranean restaurant that managing partner Steve Halliday opened on the 16th Street Mall in November 2011. Halliday, who revamped the space, a former Ling & Louie’s where he was also a partner, brought in a big-name chef in Jeremy Kittelson (he’s now cooking…
Why is that every restaurant seems to think it can do barbecue? Even when it can’t? Such is the case with this once-dependable neighborhood burger joint that, judging by last night’s dinner, has lost its mastery of burgers, too. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Black Pearl, Steve Whited’s popular contemporary American restaurant on South Pearl Street, opened in 2005, and while several of the dining dens on that stretch of asphalt have shuttered or suffered from an identity crisis, the unpretentious Platt Park gem has remained largely consistent, despite a raft of chefs that…
Patrick Hartnett Kachina Southwestern Grill 10600 Westminster Boulevard, Westminster kachinagrill.com 303-410-5813 Part one of my interview with Patrick Hartnett, exec chef of Kachina Southwestern Grill, ran yesterday; this is part two. Favorite restaurant in America: Kaya, in Pittsburgh. It’s a restaurant I opened about twenty years ago, and it’s still…
A lamb sandwich, or a salad sans lamb? It came down to making a choice between the two, and in the end, the lamb won. It always does. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
Patrick Hartnett Kachina Southwestern Grill 10600 Westminster Boulevard, Westminster kachinagrill.com 303-410-5813 This is part one of my interview with Patrick Hartnett, exec chef of Kachina Southwestern Grill; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. The restaurants at a Holiday Inn will never make anyone’s short list of favorites, but…
It may not be fifteen minutes of fame, but 8.3 minutes isn’t bread crumbs either, and for Maurizio Negrini, the master bread baker of Udi’s, it’s his life. See also: – Udi’s Colfax Pizza Bar taking over the former Encore space – Udi’s Robin Baron dishes on her new Boulder…
With the exception of the one slice they reluctantly gifted to me, two teenage boys polished off this pizza in no time flat…and then asked for more. Heathens. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
Ghetto Mexican — cheap ghetto Mexican. That’s all you need to know, and it’s what I craved after a long, cloudy night at the GABF, the blurry hours of which I’m still trying to piece together. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
In April of last year, Troy Guard, owner of TAG and TAG Raw Bar in Larimer Square, became an operating partner of Madison Street, a Congress Park neighborhood restaurant and lounge that Joe Vostrejs, COO of Larimer Associates, took over in the fall of 2010. The space, a former Dominos…
Cafe Society served up three Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a sizzling platter of carne adobada fajitas that you can only get at Tia Maria (as far as I know), to a redneck omelet with Texas toast from an unidentified hash house that’s been around for decades, to…
Few people can resist the scent of a fresh-baked pie emerging from the oven, and fewer still have the willpower to snub a slice of fresh pie when it’s shoved under their nose. And if you live in the Baker neighborhood, you’re really screwed, because as of 6 a.m. this…
Update: We have a winner. Congrats to annaortlieb8, who guessed 6,000. The actual number of books sold is 10,027. Original post: For beer geeks, the Great American Beer Festival is arguably the best week of the year, with restaurants and bars in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins hosting numerous suds-centric…
It used to be that if I wanted stacked “Christmas” enchiladas, I’d have to haul my ass to Santa Fe, but there are a few restaurants in Denver — or close to Denver — where I can now satisfy my caving, including here, at this restaurant whose chef knows a…
Lucas Forgy Freshcraft 1530 Blake Street 303-758-9608 www.freshcraft.com Part one of my interview with Lucas Forgy, exec chef of Freshcraft, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Being able to engage with people in real time and make things happen…
Update: We have a winner! Congrats to Alison Nishi, who was the first commenter to hit the right weight — 95 pounds — on the nose. The Great American Beer Festival barrels into town tomorrow, but the crew at Osteria Marco, Frank Bonnano’s popular pig-, pizza- and salumi-centric gathering spot…
There were about a dozen of us, all wrapped around a long narrow table, groaning. Sergio Romero, the exec chef of Le Grand Bistro and Oyster Bar, and the forthcoming Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, which opens next month in Baker, had decided to host a menu tasting…
